Actually the ethnic minorities in Iran, especially in the border provinces, like the Kurds, the Baluchis and the Arabs, I would say, in Khuzestan province all suffer double discrimination, and that's why these provinces are among the poorest provinces in the country and have not seen any improvement in the past 42 years.
Some of these people, just to make ends meet, basically have to do extremely difficult jobs of portering fuel across the border just to get their basic necessities covered. They are called kolbars or soukhtbars, which means they are the porters of goods or fuel, like the Baluchis and the Kurds. Most often they are targeted. They are killed by the IRGC and the border guards, knowing that they are the poor people and have no other means to defend themselves. That's why we have major uprisings in Baluchistan and in Kurdish cities against the whole situation, and that's why the regime is so afraid.
You referred to the Baha’is' case. As we speak.... Yesterday, I read another news article that another Baha’i motorcycle champion was sentenced to eight years in prison. This is typical. They don't have any rights to higher education, and their plight has been heard many times in this subcommittee and many other forums. All the religious minorities and all the ethnic minorities, unfortunately, suffer twice, once because they live in Iran—because every Iranian citizen suffers—and second because they are in a minority group.